As the World Turns

What's going on? We're exporting jobs like crazy because they can get done cheaper overseas, and we're in a frothing lather about immigration. Meanwhile we're in a war somewhere far away, gas prices are soaring at the rate of about 10 cents a week, and nobody seems especially concerned. Are we in some weird national state of denial or what? It's as if none of it is real, and everyone has the stuff that spews from the television and radio daily confused with I Love Lucy reruns. It's all background noise while we, as the kids say today, chill. What ever happened to good old-fashioned panic?